Cait
HA! I got the joke. Cell phone etiquette is a hot button issue for me this week as I got SIGHED AT for speaking on a cell phone OUTDOORS and rather quietly.
People need to lighten up about the cell phones. I think that when we can’t eavesdrop on both sides of a conversations that are going on around us we feel alienated and left out and we get UNDULY hostile. It’s an excuse for people to crab about others. Lay off it. Unless they are screaming indoors or in the company of someone else (their family when at a restaurant, a Starbucks barista trying to take their order, a waitress, etc) how is it any different than carrying on a conversation with someone else in your presence? If they are in a situation where you would not be as peeved if the other person was right there with them, why are you so angry?
As a rabid and unabashed eavesdropper (and creative writer, which is my excuse for the unobtrusive nosiness *hehe*) I sometimes just find myself peeved because I can’t eavesdrop on your WHOLE conversation. If more people were honest with themselves I think you may agree that that’s really all that’s going on.
…total threadjack, but I needed to vent. Thanks for the ears.